Write a 10 page essay on India: Partition.Jinnah’s perfect partition of Muslims and Hindus was both unpractical and set alight dormant hostilities, brining about the worst on all sides. The British

Write a 10 page essay on India: Partition.

Jinnah’s perfect partition of Muslims and Hindus was both unpractical and set alight dormant hostilities, brining about the worst on all sides. The British were able to accomplish one of their primary objectives of dismantling the empire. However, in their final months, the semblance of unity they had imposed on India through colonial administrative techniques backfired,

and the complications in administrating the partition caused further problems and the result would be one of the most sensitive flash points in the world, which exist to this day (Wenger and Zimmermann). The partition of India began as an ill-guided and unnecessary attempt at creating a fair and balanced result for everyone and could have been avoided altogether (Dr Pandey). However, as time passed, especially after world war two, the political obstacles from Whitehall, Congress and the Muslim League evolved and the partition became a necessary solution needed in order to avoid the apparent clash of cultures, religions or societies that now made a federal India an unviable option (Dr Pandey). The complexities of the partition while taking into account the different races, religions and cultures involved along with the political and socio-economic and nationalistic trends at the time made the process a very delicate and if not, confusing. The events preceding and following the partition is somewhat similar to a vicious cycle of aggression, indecisiveness, and misconceptions. Above all the chaos was Great Britain, which had just come through the most devastating conflict of the century and arguably, in known history (Dr Pandey), (Wenger and Zimmermann). The colonial power was under severe strain in both economic and militarily terms. The burdens of maintaining an empire no longer overshadowed the problems at the home front (Wenger and Zimmermann). The spread of communism and the rise of the super powers, compelled it to dismantle is empire